Written as an enrichment/extension/flipped activity for the new 9-1 GCSE curriculum the content would also be appropriate at A Level.
Historian Lucy Worsley time travels back to the Tudor Court to witness some of the most dramatic moments in the lives of Henry VIII’s six wives. Combining drama based on eye witness accounts and historical sources with Lucy’s own contemporary comment, Lucy eavesdrops on the events and reports back to the audience.
The worksheet is written in Publisher and formatted to A3. It however, can be amended and saved as a PDF file for A4 printing if required.
Written as an enrichment/extension/flipped activity for the new 9-1 GCSE curriculum the content would also be appropriate at A Level.
Historian Lucy Worsley time travels back to the Tudor Court to witness some of the most dramatic moments in the lives of Henry VIII’s six wives. Combining drama based on eye witness accounts and historical sources with Lucy’s own contemporary comment, Lucy eavesdrops on the events and reports back to the audience.
The worksheet is written in Publisher and formatted to A3. It however, can be amended and saved as a PDF file for A4 printing if required.
Worksheet to support the Channel Four Documentary series: Tony Robinson - Down Under - Ep3 - The People are Revolting
Tony recalls how, as early settlers sank their roots deeper into the soils of the new colony, the first rumblings about liberty and freedom grew and the governing authority was increasingly questioned
Supporting the A Level: British Empire : Losing and Gaining an Empire (EDEXCEL)
Worksheet to support the Channel Four Documentary series: Tony Robinson - Down Under - Ep4 - Eureka
Tony walks in the footsteps of Australia's first inland explorers and discovers how the country's fortunes were turned around by the discovery of gold, which brought commerce, corruption and dissent
Supporting the A Level: British Empire : Losing and Gaining an Empire (EDEXCEL)
This resource can be used by students as an independent revision programme or used by teachers to deliver revision sessions in the weeks leading up to the Medicine exam. Pupils will gain factual knowledge of the course as well as a better understanding of the exam technique needed for each question type. Furthermore, each unit covers a good range of past exam questions together with knowledge organisers and writing frames (to support the less able).
The resource provides:
a) A summary of the key facts/knowledge you need for the Medicine Exam. It gives pupils a fresh start to re-learn the course, without the need to re-read class notes! Key knowledge has been organised in periods of history with common sub headings signposting the main themes that run throughout the course.
KEY PERIODS:
Roman Medicine
Medieval Medicine
Renaissance Medicine
1750 - 1900
1900 onwards
The KEY THEMES within each period include:
How the cause of illness was explained
How illness was prevented
How illness was treated
Care of the Sick
Training of Doctors
Public Health
b) My students use this resource initially to make high quality revision notes such as flash cards, mind maps, bullet point lists.
c) Sample exam questions are also provided at the end of each period/section and students can choose to answer at least one exam question in full under timed conditions.
d) Furthermore, each exam question is accompanied with a suggested writing frame and/or a graphic organiser, making the resource fully differentiated . My D/C/B students really benefited from this (as did some of my A grade target students who need to adopt a less narrative and more analytical approach to exam technique).
Worksheet to support the BBC History File - The First World War -Ep1. - The Approach of War. The sheet consists of evidence collection, questions, map work and extension tasks concerning how Europe descended into war
Written for Ks3 this lesson will get students investigating the planning for and overcoming the problems associated with the opening of the Second Front in Europe.
A teacher led introduction then requires the students to open password protected documents in order to simulate the cracking of the German Enigma codes. Students will need to answer four questions regarding their knowledge of WWII and open the files. These can be amended though the questions set at the moment will require access to the internet.
With the downloaded evidence, student can plan their actions to overcome the German defenses and successfully get the Allied armies ashore.
Students then complete the beach landing sheet to explain their tactics, timings and strategies. This can be assessed using the assessment sheet included based upon the PLTs: Team Workers and Effective Participators
The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England - Health and Hygiene- Supporting Worksheet for the Ian Mortimer book of the same name
Written as an extension/reading/ independent learning activity for able GCSE 9-1 students studying the history of medicine looking at the Renaissance / Tudor period and changing medical understanding in Britain.
The resource is written as a WORD document for easy access to Google Classroom
War Walks - Agincourt - Worksheet to support the BBC Documentary with Richard Holmes
In 1415, Henry V won a remarkable victory against a French force that outnumbered him by five to one. Professor Holmes retraces Henry’s route to Agincourt and finds a story of heroism and brutality.
Professor Richard Holmes walks and rides over the Hastings battlefield that marks a turning point in British history, handling the weapons and equipment of the period and becoming a Norman knight to reveal just how close William the Conqueror came to defeat.
Written in Publisher and formatted to A3 the worksheet can be fully edited and saved as a PDF for A4 printing
Gunpowder 5-11, The Greatest Terror Plot - Worksheet to support the BBC Documentary
Drama documentary revealing the inner secrets of the Gunpowder Plot, using the words of the plotters themselves. Based on the interrogations of Thomas Wintour and Guy Fawkes.
For the first time, the inner secrets of the gunpowder plotters are dramatised using the actual words of their most senior captured leader Thomas Wintour, Guy Fawkes and state interrogators investigating the 18-month conspiracy in which a family circle of militant Catholic gentlemen tried to blow up king and parliament.
Wintour’s insider account of this epic tale of faith, fanaticism, persecution and betrayal is told in detail, from his recruitment of both Fawkes and his own brother to his capture in a dramatic siege and bloody shoot-out on 8 November.
The hopes, fears and plans for a Midlands rebellion, royal kidnap, the plotters’ penetration of the king’s bodyguard and Fawkes’s attendance, sword in hand, at a wedding attended by the king in December 1604 are shown, as well as a dramatisation of the thrilling, forgotten story of the final days after 5/11 as the conspirators are hunted down and then face the terrible punishments reserved for traitors.
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Titanic the New Evidence Investigative journalist and Titanic expert Senan Molony examines recently recovered photographs of the doomed ship, which provide fresh insight into the reasons for its sinking. The images reveal a strange mark on the hull, which may prove previously, overlooked stories of a fire raging in the boiler room.
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Britain 2000 Years in The Making - Ep 5 Superpower - Worksheet to support the TV Documentary. Written to support the teaching of the A level: Britain: Losing and Gaining and Empire - 1763-1914. Suitable as an enrichment task for able KS3
Historian Dr Thomas Asbridge explores the BBC’s archive to reveal how television’s telling of the Crusades has changed over the last 60 years. Using footage from Crusade documentaries shot during the Vietnam era, the Palestinian Crisis, the First Gulf War and the more recent War on Terror, he reveals how our interpretation of this medieval story has been influenced by modern political and social change. Thomas highlights the alternative Arabic perspectives on the Crusades, and asks whether this 1,000-year-old story really does cast its long shadow over the modern world, as so many have claimed.
With contributions from Monty Python star and medievalist Terry Jones, Washington economist JK Galbraith, and historians Simon Sebag Montefiore, Dr Peter Frankopan, Prof Konrad Hirschler and Dr Fozia Bora.
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In 1881 Virgil Earp,marshal of Tombstone, suspects Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers of stealing cattle and,backed up by his brothers Wyatt and Morgan and ‘Doc’ Holliday,challenges them to surrender near the OK corral. In the following thirty second shoot-out the suspected and unarmed thieves are shot in the back,leading to the Earps standing trial for murder - though they are exonerated by the judge,who also happens to be a relation. This retelling,along with commentaries,is a far darker version of the story in which the Earps are usually represented as the unequivocally good guys.
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Episode 2 of the BBC - The Wild West series. Drama-documentary about Billy the Kid, notorious gunman of the Wild West. The nation’s most wanted man, his killing of a county sheriff earned him a death sentence; yet in his lifetime the governor of New Mexico secretly promised Billy a pardon. Today the current state governor is planning a retrial to re-examine the evidence behind Billy’s conviction. What is the case for the defence of a man who lived and died by the gun?
4 page document
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Contextual slides for a quick overview of the Topic 4 content used at the start of each lesson in the unit of work.
Separate slides for:
1.Women
2.Persecution of the Jews
3.Nazi economic policy
BBC American Voices - Ep5. Black America - Supporting Worksheet
Worksheet written to support the BBC documentary. Written to support GCSE teaching, extension/enrichment work and flipped learning.
The episode looks at the experience of the Black minority in the USA during the first half of the Twentieth Century
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BBC American Voices - Ep1. Immigrants - Supporting Worksheet
Worksheet written to support the BBC documentary. Written to support GCSE teaching, extension/enrichment work and flipped learning.
The episode looks at the testimony of four immigrants and their experience. Students will be asked to compare their experience with American ideas of their countries approach to immigration through the linked video (The Great American Melting Pot):
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BBC American Voices - Ep4. New Deal - Supporting Worksheet
Worksheet written to support the BBC documentary. Written to support GCSE teaching, extension/enrichment work and flipped learning.
The episode looks at the testimony individuals and their experience of the Great Depression and FDR’s New Deal
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